in the last two decades, the trend in healthcare information technology has been towards digital and multimedia concepts. the next generation of healthcare information systems will consist of a vast network of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed imaging scanners, hospital information systems (his), medical information from clinical departments such as radiology information systems (ris), ...

Recognition of the biomedical concepts in a document is prerequisite to further processing of the document: medical educators examine curricular documents to discover the coverage of certain topics, detect unwanted redundancies, integrate new content, and delete old content; and clinicians are concerned with terms in patient medical records for purposes ranging from creation of an electronic me...

Rather than turn a practice upside-down with a "big bang" implementation or replace old workflows with entirely new ones, executives must survey and understand those clinical areas where the needs are real and the value of an electronic medical record to clinicians is immediate and obvious. For these and other reasons, obstetrics may be the best place to test an electronic medical record.

It is increasingly recognized that redundant information in clinical notes within electronic health record (EHR) systems is ubiquitous, significant, and may negatively impact the secondary use of these notes for research and patient care. We investigated several automated methods to identify redundant versus relevant new information in clinical reports. These methods may provide a valuable appr...

Dr Park and her team have had their electronic medical record (EMR) for almost 2 years. Throughout this time, they have been recording questions they hope their EMR might help them answer. These questions have arisen from practice-management concerns, proposed qualityimprovement initiatives, and old-fashioned clinical curiosity. They are wondering how to begin using the EMR to provide some answ...

SEARCH STRATEGY #1: “Electronic Health Records”[Mesh] OR “electronic health record” OR “electronic health records” OR “electronic medical record” OR “electronic medical record” OR messaging OR email* OR “computerized alert” OR “computerized alerts” OR “computerized reminder” OR “computerized reminders” OR “computerised reminder” OR “computerised reminders” OR electronics, medical OR informatic*...

Developing quality indicators (QI) for national purposes (eg, public disclosure, paying-for-performance) highlights the need to find accessible and reliable data sources for collecting standardised data. The most accurate and reliable data source for collecting clinical and organisational information still remains the medical record. Data collection from electronic medical records (EMR) would b...

Clinical guidelines are being developed for the purpose of reducing medical errors and unjustified variations in medical practice, and for basing medical practice on evidence. Encoding guidelines in a computer-interpretable format and integrating them with the electronic medical record can enable delivery of patient-specific recommendations when and where needed. Since great effort is expended ...

BACKGROUND Health problem lists are a key component of electronic health records and are instrumental in the development of decision-support systems that encourage best practices and optimal patient safety. Most health problem lists require initial clinical information to be entered manually and few integrate information across care providers and institutions. This study assesses the accuracy o...

Medical records search is challenging because of the inherent implicit knowledge within medical records and queries. Such knowledge is known to the medical practitioners but may be hidden from a search system. For example, when searching for the medical records of patients with a heart disease, medical practitioners commonly know that the medical records of patients taking the amiodarone medici...